Life Quotes

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.

William Shakespeare

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.

Mary Lyon

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

Felix Adle

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Norman Cousins

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.

Pink Floyd

Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.

Charles Monroe Schultz

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

Phyllis McGinley

A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.

Eugene E. Brussell

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Benjamin Disraeli

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

Anthony Burgess

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After - Life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell.

Omar Khayym

There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.

George Sand

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.

Euripides

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

Jawaherlal Nehru

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella - No matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.

Jean Ke

Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two.

H Hahn Blavatsky

There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Elinor Glyn

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Albert Einstein

Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.

Kabbalah

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Antoine Rivarol

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.

Amelia Earhart Putnam

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan".

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Eleanor Roosevelt